Song of the Year

At each of our monthly meetings, DSA members have the opportunity to participate in our song critiques. Members can submit a song to be judged by members and guests and our panel of judges provide comments and critiques. The song with the highest score becomes our winning song for that month, and at the end of the year, a Song of the Year is awarded by an independent judge from the music industry, who reviews all the winning songs from the year. The songwriter with the most winning songs of the month is awarded the Songwriter of the Year.

Find out more about our monthly DSA meetings, and how our song critiques work.

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR – RIO KING 2016 Winners – That Window Closes Fast by Rio King 2. Play Me Sump’m Like Dat by Rio King 3. I’m Singing My Heart Out In Dallas Tonight by Charles Carter 2016 – Finalists January – Time to Leave by Beth Murphy February – My Pickup Truck by Charles Carter March – Last Chance to Dance in Texas by Rio […]

Dallas Songwriters Association Song Contest Awards December 13, 2016 7 PM Sons of Hermann Hall Follow along with the video on Facebook WELCOME – Barbe McMillen Founding President Emeritus, Newsletter ￼Editor, Administration & Song Contest Director Barbara founded the DSA in 1987 after running the group for several years as part of the now defunct […]

SONG OF THE YEAR FINALIST 1 TIME TO LEAVE by Beth Murphy, Richardson, TX 2 Y PICKUP TRUCK SHE NEVER LETS ME DOWN by Charles Carter, Dallas, TX 3 LAST CHANCE TO DANCE IN TEXAS by Rio King, Plano, TX 4 I‚ÄôM SINGING MY HEART OUT IN DALLAS TONIGHT by Charles Carter, Dallas, TX 5 […]

Q&A with Dori 1Q: Who are your favorite songwriters? Ian Axel, Diane Warren, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Kacey Musgraves What makes these songwriters special to you? The emotion that is conveyed in the lyric as well as their clever use of simile, catch phrases and great prosody between music and lyric. 2Q: What inspired “’Waiting […]

Roy Elkins was our Grand Prize Judge for the DSA Song Contest. He is Founder/CEO of Broadjam.com. Roy was also our MC for the Song Contest Award Ceremony on Tuesday, December 8. What follows are his comments about the semi-finalist songs and the winning songs. Find the results of the contest here. 2015 Reviews “In […]

This is the last full day to get your tickets to the DSA Song Contest Awards and Christmas Party for a $12 donation. The donation will be $15 at the door. All proceeds go to support Dallas Songwriters Association and are tax-deductible. Go to the event page, find out more info, and get your tickets. […]

Rio King won Song of the Year 2014 at DSA’s Second Tuesday meetings with his song: Honky Tonk Shrink RIO KING, THE REAL THING The Many Layers of a Full Life With Buck Morgan You never know what will come of a question. We provided Dallas Song of the Year winner Rio King with a […]